The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-16
SUMMER DRINKS AND sIRups.
Lemonade and %Orangeads- Squeezed Frui,
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Lemonade md Orangends- Squeezed Fruita.
Use Of Grapes. s1.
american 1agaline.
Lemonade and o%rangeade should be
made at least hall an hour before using,
Hand.crush the fruit In a wooden aqueexer
though you have a dozen OF ancestral
silvers-throw the skins and pulp into the
juice, with plenty Of sugar and pounded
leo, cover and let stand till the Ice has
melted, strain through linen cheeseclotb
two or three timea till clear as cryetal.
then dilute Just enough with filtered wa.
ter, and got the pitcher In an ice.pail XIII
wanted. Put cracked ice In tumbIers Of
moueseline glass, and pour tho cham.
%pagne.colored fluid on It. Contrary IN
the general idea, the refined way of TAX.
Ing all iced drinks Is through a long.
bright straw, which saves the teeth from
injury, gives the fullest flavor Of every
drop, and spares the sight Of indiscreet
beauty fitting her tumbler on her pretty
nose, or Macmillan with a dewy INNS.
tache-baniBh the thought!
But We need not conine ourselves TO
lemons aud oranges II We are temperance
folk. Tho wide resources of modern
housekeeping treat us to "lucent Birups.
tinct with" pineapple tamarind, nome.
granate, mulberry, Kirschenwasser or
cherries, and fall the home fruits, Il ia
neither troublesome nor expensive to bot.
tie sirups for the years supply. a small
domestic press Of well lseasoned mapie IL
very much needed, but any mellow fruit
land dead.ripe fruit is most suitable for
sirupa) can be crushed in a lemon.eoueez.
er, and strained through the linen Strain.
er.cloth sold as cheese.cloth, I find T.
better than flannel for most useu, thonrh
the crystal clearncss Gomez only by rensst.
ed straining, without squeezing, saving
the pomace for jam. My mothe1's meth.
Tor grape strip answers, just as well for
cherries, white currants, strawberries and
all subacid fruits, which are pressed be-
lore cooking, cleared by straining well.
and boiled slowly in a stoneware nan. adj.
ding a ha!t-pint Of crushed sugar to each
quart Of juice ten minutes before the
hours boiling isdone. Cool. before bot
thing, seal and keep in a dark, cold place.
an .ice.closet, down the well, or in n nix
dug In the cellar floor filed with sand.
But as you would have a reputation an
hostess and h%ousekseper with the ruests
who taste your cooling cups, do NOT. altar
common recipes, mix your fruits. straw.
berries and 1aspberries DO not blend with
currant Juice, let old cook.books say what
they will. Still leas can the juice Of any
iruit be watezed with that Of garden rhu.
barb and the fraud Escape detection, Let
your strawberry strip be OF strawberries.
aud your peach strip Of peaches; but
don't inault u perceptions BY adding
currant or pie.plant juice, or mixing in
any way whatever.
The drink Of all others ior summer il
the juice Of newly pressed fruit, what In
wine countries is known as the "must"
from grapes. Must ITSELF is u%nsurpsosed in
Its benefits for the use of man. It hns
phosphstes for his brain, and pure blood-
making substance in its particles to renew
the wasted particles Of his body, while
the general aroma revives his nerves.
What poets have eung OF wine is true Of
uniermented juice of the grape, which ia
30 delightful to the taste of every human
being from infant TO age; that, once intro.
duced, vine'growe1s will never find their
acres oEs%1pfoductive. As grapes can be
Kept three parts Of the year in our North
ern states, and California or the South
can supply a new crop when ours are out
of the market; there is no reason why
grape must should not be freshly offered
in every shop each week in the year. Its
use will mark anew era in yigor Of brain
and body for the. raco. Let these words
stand. The age will see them true.